constitution

Title: constitution
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constitution

US CONSTITUTION 1. Article 1 - Enumerated Powers a. Creates Congress - House and Senate b. Lists powers of Congress 1. Regulate commerce 2. Levy taxes 3. Senate tries impeachment proceedings 2. Article 2 - Executive Branch a. President is Commander-in-Chief of the armed forces b. President has appointment power for officers and judges c. Has the power to negotiate treaties d. Veto power 1. Pocket veto - if President does not act in 10 days and Congress is not still in session, bill dies and must be …showed first 75 words of 1101 total…

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…showed last 75 words of 1101 total…power to issue writs of mandamus, the Court ruled that this exceeded the authority allotted the Court under Article III of the Constitution and was therefore null and void. III. Plessy v. Ferguson - 1. Background :1896 - Plessy, who insisted that he was 7/8 Caucasian and only 1/8 black refused to sit in a separate railcar from whites, he was arrested 2. Holding - the Supreme Court found that a Louisiana statute requiring separate intrastate railcars for whites and blacks neither abridge

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